The final of the School league "CASE-IN": high school students will teach responsible consumption

The final will be held on June 10, 2020 School League Season VIII The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" − one of the projects of the presidential platform "Russia is a land of opportunity».

During the final, 14 teams of high school students from 8 regions of Russia will defend solutions to the case "The circulation of hydrocarbons in everyday life and industry", developed based on materials from the partner of the School League PJSC SIBUR Holding and dedicated to the collection and recycling of waste from various plastic materials.

"The path of an engineer should start from school. To build this continuous path, SIBUR acts as a partner of the championship."CASE-IN"as part of the Formula for Good Deeds social investment program. We want to show the scale of the tasks that SIBUR solves, and we hope to involve more and more students in engineering activities." Artur Kovin, SIBUR's Chief Technology Modeling Implementation Expert, notes.

155 teams of students from grades 10-11 took part in the qualifying stages of the School League.

High school students developed solutions for plastic collection in Russian cities for its subsequent recycling.

The decisions of the teams representing Irkutsk, Guy, Kemerovo, Komsomolsk–on–Amur, Novosibirsk, Novocheboksarsk, Svobodny, Stavropol, Tomsk and Cheremkhovo were recognized as the best.

To participate in the final, the students spent 10 days working on ideas for collecting and sorting plastic waste in a conditional special economic zone in Tobolsk, paying special attention to the environmental situation.

High school students came up with activities to draw public attention to responsible consumption; developed a memo on proper waste disposal and poster layouts for social advertising focused on environmental protection; designed separate trash collection baskets for homes and offices.

The finalists' ideas will be evaluated by experts from industry companies and organizations, including SIBUR, a branch of PJSC RusHydro, the Corporate University of Hydropower, the Novosibirsk branch of Siberian Generating Company LLC, Rosseti Volga PJSC, Energy Storage Systems LLC, as well as teachers from Irkutsk National Research Technical University and Tyumen State Technical University. Industrial University and representatives of the Autonomous Non–Profit Organization "Russia - the land of opportunities".

During the final, participants will also receive a master class "Personal Effectiveness Life Hacks: Use your phone effectively" and a quiz "Brain-case" from the Association of Trainers of the Russian Youth Union.

Alexey Komissarov, CEO of ANO Russia – Land of Opportunities, will make a motivating address to schoolchildren, and Oksana Mustafina, SIBUR's brand development, recruitment and HR communications expert, will hold a meeting on "How talent can find itself in the industrial sector."

"The School League competitions are designed to teach high school students how to work in a team, search for and analyze information, generate and present ideas. One of the main tasks of this season's case study "CASE-IN" − instilling in the minds of schoolchildren the conviction of the need for responsible consumption and respect for nature"- the founder and co−chairman of the Organizing Committee of the CASE-IN Championship comments Artem Korolev.

The winners and prize-winners of the final of the School League "CASE-IN" will receive from 1 to 10 additional USE points upon admission to 19 partner universities of the championship and the champions will be able to make an educational trip to Tobolsk at Russia's largest petrochemical complex ZapSibNeftekhim.

The broadcast of the final of the School League of the CASE-IN Championship on the YouTube channel of the organizer, the Reliable Change Foundation, will begin on 10.06.2020 at 10.30 Moscow time.